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Dropping the embargo would help the automakers; assuming they could provide repair parts for all those 50's cars the Cubans have been nursing along all these years. 😉
January 2, 2009 at 9:05 pm
in reply to: Slavery#4123
....I like the theory of animal husbandry, how about a hunter who can't throw a spear due to injury or genetic weakness? Will he observe that a plot of land can be planted and harvested to feed his family and trade for meat? His offspring may be less athletic but will eat and reproduce anyway.
More than likely first he was the maker of spears, points, etc. But the proposal you make would have, doubtless, followed in due time as we make the conversion from hunting to semi-nomadic herding and then to settled agriculture.
But where is the evidence of a large-scale selective breeding program for desired traits?
I'm not proposing that a formal program with "papers" or such; more the positive feedback school of thought... don't let the kind gentle ones hook up with the violent brutal ones. That kind of control was in the power of the slave owner and (based on the term "sold down the river") was in play.
January 2, 2009 at 3:32 pm
in reply to: Slavery#4117
During our study of early civilization (domestication of plants and animals, specifically) I tell the kids that a possible way the hunter-gatherers made the step toward pastorialism is this… having, after the hunt discovering a baby whangdoodle, that is orphaned by the momma becoming his bag for the day, our ingenious “h-g” decide to take this one home and raise it. Each day baby whangdoodle becomes more used to humankind and imprinted… domesticated if you will. It is not a great stretch to see more babies being brought up to dinner size to help with the food issue until the next epiphany: take two really docile whangdoodles and let them do what whangdoodles do… helps avoid the work and danger of the hunt… just feed them, let them make more whangdoodles, and eat the extras. Behold husbandry!Yes, this is an overly simplistic scenario but a logical progression none-the-less. Same idea with slaves... doesn't matter if you use all the terror tactics that we read in the old letter or a paternalistic view of my little dark helpers... when the importation of new slaves stopped the importance of a breeding program (formal or accidental) increased.
... pretty much eliminates the criteria for it being a civil war.
Cannot, however, discount the family feud factor... given that all of the rulers in pre-WWI Europe were related by blood, marriage, or both (to good Queen Victoria).
... they faced only British rifleman doing what they were trained to do. Fire fifteen aimed shots per minute.
+1. According to the logic of the time (and for some time after) the SMLE was the ultimate battle rifle available and Tommy knew how to use it. We had the best target rifle (Springfield though many of our troops were armed with Enfields in '06... often called the P-17) and the Germans the best hunting rifle (Mauser). IMHO.